In southwest Turkey, about 2 hours by car from Antalya, a mirror of turquoise water shimmers under the Anatolian sun that excites both the traveler and the scientist.

Lake Salda is the only known place on Earth that is analogous to the lake that once filled Mars’ Jezero Crater, and NASA’s Perseverance Rover team actually visited Lake Salda in the lead-up to its launch to study it.

Briony Horgan, a professor at Purdue University’s Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences Department, traveled with the NASA team to Lake Salda, and after studying the area, said she felt as if she were looking at the ancient Jezero Crater lake.

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In southwest Turkey, about 2 hours by car from Antalya, a mirror of turquoise water shimmers under the Anatolian sun that excites both the traveler and the scientist.

Lake Salda is the only known place on Earth that is analogous to the lake that once filled Mars’ Jezero Crater, and NASA’s Perseverance Rover team actually visited Lake Salda in the lead-up to its launch to study it.

Briony Horgan, a professor at Purdue University’s Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences Department, traveled with the NASA team to Lake Salda, and after studying the area, said she felt as if she were looking at the ancient Jezero Crater lake.